Rare Chinese export porcelain group of a lady with a mask holding a child, Qianlong.

Rare Chinese export porcelain group of a lady with a mask holding a naked child decorated in under-glaze cobalt blue (qinghua), c. 1740, Qianlong reign, Qing dynasty, h. 17,5 cm, 7 in. 7-20368 

Literature:

• The Nanking Cargo, sold at Christie’s Amsterdam in 1986, lots 5743 to 5746, for similar figures;

• The Geldermalsen [sunk in 1752], History and Porcelain, by C. Jörg, Groningen 1986, pp. 100/101 for similar figures;

• Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795, by C.S. Woodward, Cape Town 1974, p. 47, cat. 71 for a figure of this type recovered from the wreck of Middelburg sunk in 1780;

• The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes, The Complete Record (1643/46-1752), by C. Sheaf and R. Kilburn, Oxford 1988, p. 157, fig. 206 for a a group of similar figures from the 1752 wreck;

• Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, by J. Ayers, 2016 London, vol. 1, pp. 90/91 for a standing lady 17,9 cm high, two standing women with infants 15,3 cm high, and two seated women holding infants 14 cm high dated first half of the 18^th century;

• The Cà Mao Shipwreck [c. 1725] Porcelain from the Collection of Dr Zelnik, cover with a pair of standing figures: she holding a fan and decorated in under-glaze cobalt blue and he decorated in under-glaze pale green.

罕見的中國外銷瓷青花人物塑像，像中一位戴著面具的仕女抱著一個裸露的嬰孩，約1740年，清乾隆，高17.5釐米，7英吋。

參考文獻：

• 南京號瓷器，1986年佳士得阿姆斯特丹，參見拍品號5743至5746近器；

•《海爾德馬爾森號（1752年沉沒），歷史及瓷器》，作者C. Jörg，1986年格羅寧根出版，參見100/101頁近器；

•《1652-1795，好望角的東方陶瓷》，作者C.S. Woodward，1974年開普敦出版，參見第47頁編號711780年米德爾堡市打撈的相似塑像一件；

•《Hatcher號瓷器全錄（1643/46-1752年）》，作者C. Sheaf及R. Kilburn，1988年牛津出版，參見第157頁圖206一組與1752年打撈的相似塑像。

•《英女王藏中日藝術品》，作者J. Ayers，2016年倫敦出版，見卷一，90-91頁一件高17.9釐米 的仕女立像，兩件高15.3釐米的抱孩婦女立像，和兩件高14釐米的抱孩婦女坐像，以上塑像皆作於十八世紀上半葉。                                                                                                                 

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